On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 02:18:44AM +0200, a little birdie told me
that Maxim Sobolev remarked
>
> If your logic is right, then attempt to remove existent files from FAT using
> '*' should yield absolutely the same result (i.e. EINVAL). But in fact files
> being removed from FAT w/o any problems (touch /fat/1.exist /fat/2.exist ; rm
> /*.exist). IMHO it is clear bug in unlink error codes on FAT f/s.
I think you'll find that the '*' in that case is expanded by your shell
long before rm ever gets to it.
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